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is the author of the Merrily Watkins novels
'Rickman's crime series is one of the best around.'
Andrew Taylor, The Spectator.
'First class.'
Maxim Jakubowski, The Guardian
and eight other acclaimed thrillers.
He was born in Lancashire and has spent most of his adult life in Wales and the Border country where he lives with his wife and editor, Carol - they met as young journalists on an evening paper. Phil switched to radio and television, winning awards for BBC news and current affairs reporting in Wales before his first novel, a Welsh political ghost story, was discovered by the novelist Alice Thomas Ellis, then fiction editor for Duckworth.
And that was it, really... Phil still presents programmes for BBC Radio Wales including the book show Phil the Shelf.
He's also written two novels as Will Kingdom and started a new series under the name Thom Madley, aimed, but not exclusively, at a slighter younger market.
Phil Rickman lives with his wife, Carol, also a former journalist and now his most frank and ruthless editor, in a medieval farmhouse on the Welsh Border.
He's happy to communicate with readers -
preferably by email, via Rickmans@exorcizing.demon.co.uk
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